The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-22
A BILLET IN HIS BRAIN.
Capt. Lozier, of the Schooner w. R.
Beebe, Suicides on Board His Ship.

Capt. Lozier, OF the schooner w. n.
Beebe, Suicides on Board His Ship
The flags on American schooners were at
half-mast yesterday morning because of the
sad and sudden death of Capt. Stephen Lo-
zier, of the schooner w. r. Beebe.
Capt Lozier tired of the worrying and
trouble incident to life, and put an end TO
his career by sending a pistol ball through
his brain. He was a we'll known ship
master, having sailed for many years in
the Atlantic waters and visited in his voy-
aging almost every port on that ocean.
He was an able seaman and one of the
most practical officers who came into this
port, and for that reason his rash act was
not only a shock but very great surprise.
No one had thought that he would ever be
guilty of suicide ne matter how great might
have been his troubles.
Yesterday morning he went aboard the
ship at 40 O'Clock and called to James q.
Buell., the steward, to know If he had any
corn meal. Buell. replied that be had, and
the Captain told him TO make some cruel
for breakfast. He then went into his cabin
and was not seen again until he was found
deadG Buell. prepared the breakfast and
called to Mate Frank R. Smith, that it was
ready. He then went to the Captains cabin
and called to him TO know if he wished
coffee, but he received no reply. He entered
the cabin, but the Captain was not there.
Buell. searched the apartment, and finally
found him on his knees in the closet He
called to the mate and told him that the
where the body was and found
Capt. Lozier on his knees, with
his hands pressed close to his face. On
the floor lay a revolver, and from his mouth
flowed blood that trickled from his hands
down his arms and fell to the floor, rapidly
forming pool 1t seemed as if he had felt
the pain of the shot and pressed his hands TO
his face, for he had fired the bullet into his
mouth and it had passed upward, behind
the left eye and into the brain. The false
teeth that he wore were broken in two, and
the left eye was badly discolored. The two
men fastened ashore and sent word to the
Coroner who Immediately repaired to the
vessel and held an inquest
The testimony brought out the facts as
given above, and Frank r. Smith testi-
fed that Lozier had been suffering for
some time past with dyspepsia and
was also worried by the delay
in loading his vessel His troubles had
caused him to become melancholy, and he
had not been i'll cheerful mood for some
days past. Smith walked home with him
ON the night previous and tried to cheer
him up, but he seemed very much down
cast The verdict of the cOroners jury
was that IL was case or suicide.
Capt Lozier was from Hackensack, n. j.,
where his family resides. He leaves wife
and nine children, four sons and five
daughters. He was a man of ample means,
owning property in Hackensack and a
large portion OF the schooner Beebe. He
also intended to purchase another schooner
upon his return to New York, and negotia-
tions regarding the purchase were pending
at the time of his death.
Capt. Lozier was out on his hundredth
voyage. A voyage he considered a trip
from New York to whatever port or ports
he might touch and back again to New
York, and had he concluded this trip it
would have made the one hundredth time
that he has sailed the round trip.
No other reason for his action than his in
disposition and the worry consequent upon
the delay in loading can be assigned as a
motive for the deed.
His son, Stephen, was telegraphed the sad
news yesterday and he answered to give the
body proper care and attention, and to ship
it to Hackensack, via the next steamer for
New York